Older and wiser.

We have had one long continuous birthday party in the family. Sweet baby Camryn arrived in March last year instead of April. Thank goodness. We didn't need more excuses to eat cake this month than we already have. And since every little cowgirl needs a pony we sent one to the birthday girl.

Alayna starts off the official month of April birthdays in the family with the awesome birthdate of 4-4-88. (Don't worry Alayna, only the people that can add/subtract know how old you are.)

Colton was next to blow out his birthday candles. He is a big boy of three as of the 12th.



That's him as Woody


and playing with "Cars."

We were back four days later to celebrate Kirsten's sixth birthday. She shook her booty while singing the song in her head, "sixy." Her daddy recorded the rendition for future leverage.

Max at six months is a crawler and he found Maximus. His helmet is making his cute little head round but it also keeps him out of danger from flying toys and siblings.

And yes, that is Jenny standing on Emily. Don't ask because we don't know why either.

Emily's 14th birthday extravaganza lasted about three days if you include the birthday party of her friend. Weird stories to add to your file: Emily has a very good friend from school that she met in Pre-K. They like telling people they have been friends since they were four years old. Her friend was born the morning of the 22nd of April. Emily was born the evening of the 21st. They just realized this year that they were born in the same hospital. They may have known each other longer than we thought. Their friendship could date back to the hospital nursery.

And just because he was going to be thirty on the 29th, doesn't mean we can't still think of him as only eleven. So Justin got a double shot. Again.

We are not going to eat another bite of cake.
At least not for three weeks.

Does anybody really know

what time it is? I was home from the Disney Cruise for 5 days when I was off to WA for nearly 2 weeks. I now have no idea what time it is. When we flew to Florida we changed time zones and two days later we lost an hour with daylight savings. Then five days in central time zone and 2 weeks in Pacific time zone has got me totally confused. I started teaching Seminary again this morning so I really need to decide when I should be sleeping. Six a.m. central time zone seems to be unacceptable at this point.

It rained much of the time I was in WA but I saw some blue sky too. I don't mind the rain. I know the rain is what makes the Northwest beautiful. I laughed at how many times people apologized to me for the weather, though. I mean nobody ever apologizes for the weather in Oklahoma and really somebody should. Rain in OK comes down in buckets and more often than not includes thunder, lightning and floods. And what's really fun is hail, tornadoes and straight line winds all of which are typical weather in OK. Those Northwesterners really are amateurs when it comes to the weather. When an Oklahoman asks me if it rains all the time in WA I have to say well it's not what you think.

I came home to Jenny and Jon staying at the house until they could move into their new home in Collinsville. I got to hang out with Colton one day and it was such a treat. He doesn't talk much so it is hard to tell what he is thinking but he has the cutest smile and it is so fun to get him to laugh. He recently discovered the Tarzan movie and he decided to watch it while sitting on my legs. In the scary parts he reached back to make sure I was still there. I was playing with my phone so I took a picture of his adorableness.